Currently, my files with the suffix (extension) .def are recognized as generic "plain text files", and are opened in gedit, which I prefer for plain text files.
However, my .def files are actually a ...

Often I want to skim through a document or piece of code, which I do with page down (Ctrl-D) and page up (Ctrl-U), but it feels like I am violating the spirit of Vim using emacs-like chords/control ...

Is tmux+vim/nano the closest thing to the Notepad++ workflow (in recent versions of Notepad++ that automatically save session state)?
I really miss that, it was convenient to just dump text I copied ...

I was wondering if there was a vim plug-in for the Sublime editor feature showing a smaller version of the file currently being edited, generally in the right hand side of the window -- see picture ...

I get error when converting a large file:
$ iconv -f GB2312 -t UTF-8 2001.txt -o 2001_u.txt
iconv: illegal input sequence at position 245256667
What does the position mean in this error? I tried it ...

I'm looking for a more efficient GUI-based solution to edit root-owned and root-only writable files than using either nano or vim, both of which of course limit your cursor to navigate one character ...

I am editing a long HTML document in Kate, and I'd love to be able to "close" the parts I'm not currently working on. But this is a new document, and the highest level of modularization uses section, ...

Sometimes, but not always, a certain file, when saved with Kdevelop over SSHFS to a remote server, will include the last n lines of the file repeated. N is variable from save to save. The file that ...

I am working on a project in which I need to remove all formatting from a text file including whitespaces and line breaks, then replace any colons with pipes. I've made some headway but I cannot find ...

By "first class" I can just work by forking and merging my code willy-nilly, several times every minute, without ever thinking about the VCS....
I'm looking for an editor environment where the most ...

Sometimes I have problems with opening a file using a graphical text editor -- I'm using geany. The file can be read by vim without a problem. I checked the file, and there wasn't anything wrong with ...

When I start Terminal I can not control it. It starts executing an endless loop repeating that some alias does not exist. Because of this I am not able to edit this file using a program such as vim. ...

Since i recently installed CodeBlocks, I can't insert spaces in codeblocks, codelite or mysql-workbench editors.
When i press space the editor interprets it as a completion key unless there is no word ...

Which tools were around »back in the day« to aid presentation Unix/Linux environments? I just wondered how somebody would accomplish something like slides in a e.g. text-based environment or low-end ...

Mostly I edit ruby files, although shell script file comments are also #
Currently my comments show as dark blue on black which is really hard to read.
See screenshot.
How can I change their color?
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I have a LaTeX source file with its indentation messed up.
I am looking for a way to force vim (may be through one of vim-latex-suite commands) to re-run the automatic indentation commands over the ...

I am looking for a light weight shell editor for Linux that a young child (eg 7-8 year old) can write python scripts in.
The motivation is to find something that is helpful for a beginning programmer ...

I have some Visual Basic Application (VBA) code that I need to tweak. Note: I don't need any help in the coding aspect of it; this is not a programming question.
When I opened the .vba file in Kate ...

I've googled all around and found tons of weird solutions to ^M problem, but couldn't find one and simple: how could I just open any file, like in Notepad++ and work on it? I don't want to mess with ...

I see this discussion: How does one find and replace text in all open files with geany?
I want to find and replace all files in a directory. The method suggested in the answer, is very good to find. ...